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      "id": 103145,
      "date": "2002-11-14",
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      "title": "Turkey's November 3, 2002 National Election",
      "summary": "In Turkey's November 3, 2002 national election, voters vented their frustrations over an\nimpoverishing recession, a painful International Monetary Fund program, and endemic corruption\nby expelling the governing coalition parties and others. The Justice and Development Party (AKP),\nwhich has Islamist roots, won by occupying the terrain of the majority center-right of Turkish\npolitics. It will form a government without its leader, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who has been banned\nbecause of an Islamist speech. AKP's highest priorities are economic recovery and accession\nnegotiations with the European Union. It might offer the United States a useful model of a Muslim\ndemocracy, and its initially pragmatic foreign policy may be in line with U.S. aims regarding Iraq,\nCyprus, and the European Union. (See also  CRS Report RL31794(pdf) ,  Iraq: Turkey and the\nDeployment\nof U.S. Forces .",
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  "topics": [
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